Tobacco-Free Campus Policy

The University is committed to providing a reasonably safe and healthy living/learning/working
environment for the students, faculty, staff, and visitors by minimizing the negative
effects of secondhand smoke, improving fire safety, and encouraging a more sustainable
environment.

The negative health effects of tobacco use have been well documented over the last
50 years since the original Surgeon General's report in 1964. Those negative effects
pose public health concerns in a school environment as well. The U.S government's
Healthy People 2020 also lists tobacco-related illness as a top health determinant
that negatively affects the lives of citizens.

Effective January 1, 2017, tobacco use is prohibited on all University property, both
indoors and outdoors, and in University-owned vehicles. The Tobacco-Free Campus Policy
applies to all forms of tobacco, including but not limited to cigarettes, cigars,
pipes, water pipes (hookahs), chew, electronic cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco products.
The policy is applicable twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. Accordingly:

This policy applies to any individual on University property, including but not limited
to students, faculty, staff, other employees, contractors, subcontractors, volunteers,
visitors, guests and members of the public.

The policy applies to all University facilities, property, and vehicles, owned or
leased, regardless of location.

Tobacco use will not be permitted in any enclosed place, including, but not limited
to, all offices, classrooms, hallways, waiting rooms, restrooms, meeting rooms, community
areas, performance venues and private residential space within University housing.

Tobacco use will be prohibited outdoors on all University campus property, including,
but not limited to, loading docks, university owned streets and sidewalks, parking
lots, parking garages, shuttle bus stops, paths, fields, sports/recreational areas,
and stadiums.

In further recognition of the incompatibility of the University's educational mission
and the promotion of tobacco products, no tobacco-related advertising or sponsorship
will be permitted on University property, at University-sponsored events, or in publications
produced by the University, with the exception of advertising in a newspaper or magazine
that is not produced by the University and which is lawfully sold, bought, or distributed
on University property.

Cigarettes, including electronic cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, including hookah pipes,
shall not be sold or distributed as samples on university grounds, either in vending
machines, the student union, or any area on campus.

Littering of remains of Tobacco products or any other related waste product on Campus
Property is further prohibited.

Definitions

For the purposes of this policy, "Tobacco Related" applies to the use of a tobacco
brand or corporate name, trademark, logo, symbol, or motto, selling message, recognizable
pattern or colors, or any other indicia of product identical to or similar to, or
identifiable with, those used for any brand of tobacco products or company which manufactures
tobacco products.

"E-cigarette" means any electronic device, such as one composed of a heating element,
battery, and/or electronic circuit, which provides a vapor of nicotine or any other
substances, and the use or inhalation of which stimulates smoking. The term also includes
a reference to any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold
as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, e-hookah, or vape pen, or under any other product
name or descriptor.

"Smoking" means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar,
cigarette, or pipe, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended
for inhalation, including water pipes, bongs, hookahs and marijuana, whether natural
or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. "Smoking" also includes the use of an
electronic smoking device that creates an aerosol or vapor, in any manner or in any
form, or the use of any oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition
of smoking in this Article.

"Tobacco Product" means any substance containing tobacco leaf, including but not limited
to, cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, beedies, kreteks, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco,
snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, bidis, blunts, clove cigarettes, or any other
preparation of tobacco; and, any product or formulation of matter containing biologically
active amounts of nicotine that is manufactured, sold, offered for sale, or otherwise
distributed with the expectation that the product or matter will be introduced into
the human body by inhalation, but does not include any cessation product specifically
approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in treating nicotine or
tobacco dependence.

Exceptions

Ceremonial Smoking: Individuals or groups interested in Smoking as part of a ceremony in or on University
property must seek advance approval from the Provost by submitting a request for approval
through the Tobacco-Free Campus website.

Tobacco Use in Research: Tobacco use may be allowed in an enclosed area on Campus Property for a medical,
scientific, or research program, provided that tobacco use is an integral part of
such program and received prior approval from the Provost for the inclusion of tobacco
use in the program pursuant to the applicable procedures for such medical, scientific,
or research program.

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Communications

Copies of this policy will be distributed to all faculty and staff and will be included
with information given to all admitted students. Announcements also will be included
in campus newspapers to insure that everyone understands the policy. Tobacco free
signs will be posted at all points of entry to on University property and at all University
building entrances.

Please Note: This policy applies to all University property whether or not such notices
are posted. No ashtrays shall be provided at any location on campus.

Organizers of and attendees at public events, such as conferences, meetings, public
lectures, social events, cultural events, and sporting events, as well as non-University
events held on Campus Property must abide by this policy. Organizers of such events
are responsible for informing attendees of this policy.

Support

On-site tobacco cessation programs are available at the SXU Health Center on an on-going basis to assist and encourage
individuals who wish to quit using tobacco.

Enforcement

The success of this policy will depend on the thoughtfulness, consideration, and cooperation
of smokers and nonsmokers. All students, faculty, staff and visitors share in the
responsibility for adhering to and enforcing this policy. Violations of the policy
will be treated in accordance with general campus disciplinary procedures.

An individual may inform someone using tobacco on campus property of this policy and
request that the tobacco user complies with the policy. Noncompliant individuals who
are perceived as threatening or violent may be referred to Public Safety. Individuals
also may report policy violations through the reporting procedures on the Tobacco-Free
Campus website, located at Tobacco-Free Noncompliance Reporting Form.

Individuals found to be noncompliant will be subject to existing campus disciplinary
measures:

For students, such noncompliance will be referred to the Interim VP for Student Affairs/Dean
of Students.

For employees, noncompliance will be referred to the employee's supervisor, and/or
the Office of Human Resources.

For contractors and subcontractors, noncompliance will be referred to the campus unit
responsible for monitoring performance of the applicable contract.

Visitors and members of the public who refuse to comply with this policy may be asked
to leave campus.